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[dangermouse]

Just a note to remind anyone that would like to support this forum, The GPL Repository, The Alternative GPL Track Database and support us to support all the major large downloads we have hosted (ie all the recent mods) would be greatfully accepted.

There is a button at the bottom of most pages with "Make a Donation".
All donations will go to Bill Cooper to help amortize some of the server costs and any amount will be greatfully appreciated.


Thank you

[Bob Simpson]

dangermouse, on Jul 13 2006, 10:56 AM, said:

There is a button at the bottom of the main page with "Make a Donation". All donations will go to Bill Cooper to help amortize some of the server costs and any amount will be greatfully appreciated.

Where is this located?  I've looked at the main page of the forum and the Track Database.

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[dangermouse]

Bob Simpson, on Aug 31 2006, 03:20 PM, said:

dangermouse, on Jul 13 2006, 10:56 AM, said:

There is a button at the bottom of the main page with "Make a Donation". All donations will go to Bill Cooper to help amortize some of the server costs and any amount will be greatfully appreciated.

Where is this located?  I've looked at the main page of the forum and the Track Database.

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  When we upgraded the forum a couple of weeks ago it must have been overlooked. We'll be puting it back up very soon.

[Bill]

Hmm will fix shortly

[dangermouse]

Bob Simpson, on Aug 31 2006, 03:20 PM, said:

dangermouse, on Jul 13 2006, 10:56 AM, said:

There is a button at the bottom of the main page with "Make a Donation". All donations will go to Bill Cooper to help amortize some of the server costs and any amount will be greatfully appreciated.

Where is this located?  I've looked at the main page of the forum and the Track Database.

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Button now fixed.

[dangermouse]

To give you guys that have donated and anyone who might consider donating an idea of what costs there are and where/how your money is spent:

Bill said:

About a month ago one of the BCSims servers was compromised and as a result the bandwidth was exceeded not to mention the machine had to be redone.
Total cost $560 in bandwidth charges and $230 in hardware and reload costs for a total cost of $790.
Any help from those that would like to help with this would be greatly appreciated.
There is a Make a Donation button at the bottom of the page to use.
Thanks to all

Bill has also bought a new server to further improve the speed and support available to the GPL community.  

[dangermouse]

Thought you guys might like to read some figures:




Since Feb 2006 "the Alternative GPL Track Database / SimRacing Mirror Zone / GPL Repository"  trio have had over

32,008,407 hits  

and users have downloaded over

5,159,900,228 Kbytes = 4920.86 Gigabytes = 4.81 Terrabytes

That, is a heck of a lot of bytes! That's more than 410 Gigabytes/month





Many thanks Bill

[dangermouse]

There have been some recent donations and they are gratefully appreciated!! I'm not going to name names (unless you want to come forward), but you obviously know who you are. Many Thanks!!  

[Bernd Nowak]

Good to hear !

[dangermouse]

Any and all donations would be gratefully appreciated as Bill is now hosting all the SpeedGeezers sites as well as this site, the Alternative GPL Track Database, the GPL Repository plus all the rest of the BCSims stuff.  


Thank you.

[Arturo Pereira]

dangermouse, on Sep 28 2007, 05:21 PM, said:

Any and all donations would be gratefully appreciated as Bill is now hosting all the SpeedGeezers sites as well as this site, the Alternative GPL Track Database, the GPL Repository plus all the rest of the BCSims stuff.  


Thank you.

[death_angel]

Thank you for all the services Bill and Keith!    

[Bill]

I would like to thank those folks that have been kind enough to donate $ to help with the servers.
There are a few that I really want to thank for their support, I won't name names but you all know who you are.
Many thanks ! It is greatly appreciated!!

[Bill]

Just a word of thanks for those that have donated
Its very much appreciated!

[Bill]

Thank you once again folks it is very much appreciated